Agnes of God

     

Agnes of God1985

Stars: Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft, Meg Tilly, Anne Pitoniak
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Rating: PG-13
Runtime: 98 minutes

This Broadway hit gets a solid film treatment by director Norman Jewison, but that can't make up for the weaknesses of the script (which were as true onstage as they are here). Jane Fonda plays a chain-smoking shrink sent to a convent to do a psycho… more »


Doctor Martha Livingston:
Suppose the saints would have smoked if tobacco'd been popular back then?

Mother Miriam Ruth:
Undoubtably. Not the ascetics, of course, but, well, St. Thomas More.

Doctor Martha Livingston:
Long, thin, and filtered!

Mother Miriam Ruth:
St. Ignatius would smoke cigars and then stub them out on the soles of his bare feet. And of course all of the apostles?

Doctor Martha Livingston:
Hand rolled.

Mother Miriam Ruth:
Even Christ would partake socially.

Doctor Martha Livingston:
St. Peter?

Mother Miriam Ruth:
Pipe!

Doctor Martha Livingston:
Right!

Mother Miriam Ruth:
Mary Magdalene?

Doctor Martha Livingston:
Ohhh! You've come a long way baby!

Mother Miriam Ruth:
And St. Joan would chew tobacco!

Doctor Martha Livingston:
All right! What do you suppose today's saints are smoking?

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